Melwood Veterans Services
Social Services - Upper Marlboro, MD, US
Melwood Veterans Services Employees
Melwood Veterans Services Details
Thousands of veterans and service members are coping with invisible wounds, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injuries (TBI), moral injury, or military sexual trauma (MST), and are processing the human impacts of their military service.Operation Tohidu® is a 5-day intensive retreat offered at no cost to participants. Each session serves between 8-16 participants, including male and female veterans and service members representing all branches of service, as well as their spouses, partners or caregivers for a couple's retreat.Veterans have dedicated their lives to the protection of our liberties and rights. Operation Tohidu® serves them and challenges them - in some cases for the first time in a life dedicated to serving others - to pursue their own right to happiness and to move forwards from their service experiences with renewed positivity and pride."Tohidu" is a Cherokee word meaning peace of mind, body, and spirit. Operation Tohidu® focuses on confidence-building, outdoor activities, and group discussion in a relaxed, positive environment using proven techniques for the self-management of symptoms, stressors, and responses. Our highly trained staff of certified recreational support professionals facilitate activities that highlight individual ability and teamwork, promote positive engagement, drive transformative discussions and reframe traumatic experience.Programming is designed to facilitate post-traumatic growth and drive or initiate progress on a participant's post-trauma journey. Operation Tohidu® assists participants in changing their mindset, reconnecting with their spiritual selves, adapting their approach to trauma, and regaining a sense of wellbeing and purpose. Melwood Veterans Services' adventure-based programming and positive psychology approach combine to encourage participants to overcome obstacles to their recovery and achieve the Operation Tohidu® mission of Peace with the Past, through Power in the Present.
